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NOSES OUT OF JOINT.

You needn't cry and look so sad; I love you, p.u.s.s.y dear, the same-- I truly do--as I loved you Before this cunning kitty came; But things are changed a little now, You know, and 'cause he's very small, I've got to 'tend the most to him.

Your nose is out of joint, that's all.

Don't you remember that cold day They left me hours and hours in bed, And when nurse came for me at last, "Your nose is out of joint," she said, "A baby's come to live with us?"

Well, then, that's what's the matter now; You might have known how it would be-- Oh dear, my head! Please don't me-ow, Or I must send you out the room; Nice little _girls_ don't make a noise When their mammas give almost all Their kisses to small red-faced boys.

I tell you, puss, you are too big To sit with kit upon my knee, And it's no worse for you to have Your nose put out of joint than me.